Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3966

Name

Clostridium litorale Fendrich et al. 1991

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Lawson and Rainey 2016

Type Strain

representative organism

W6^T (=ATCC 49638 =DSM 5388)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019
family Clostridiaceae Pribram 1933 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Spring 2021
genus Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Lawson and Rainey 2016
species Clostridium litorale Fendrich et al. 1991

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Clostridium litorale Fendrich et al. 1991. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3966.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3966.xml

References

Fendrich C, Hippe H, Gottschalk G. Clostridium halophilium sp. nov. and Clostridium litorale sp. nov., an obligate halophilic and a marine species degrading betaine in the Stickland reaction. Arch Microbiol 1990; 154:127-132. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00423321.